The weather couldn’t have been kinder for the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Practice Expedition! It was a gloriously sunny couple…
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Black Mountains Practice Expedition
Things eventually seem to be returning to their usual pattern and, after a gap of several years, we were able…
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Southern Schools Climbing Competition in Brighton
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On Thursday 18th November the climbing team headed to High Sports Climbing Centre in Brighton. Despite the team being disseminated…
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529 mountains? Why not!
For no particular reason other than “why not?” in 2014 I decided to try and climb all 529 of Britain’s…
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Dr Young and Britain’s 3000ft Mountains
Britain is blessed with 529 mountains over 3000 ft (914.4m) which Dr Simon Young has been steadily ticking off over…
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Buzz at the Bouldering
| Climbing
What a delight to have the Outdoor Ed Centre full smiles, laughter and cheering as it is meant to be.…
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Fourth Form Outdoor Adventures
On Monday and Tuesday the whole of the Fourth Form were out of lessons taking part in a couple of…
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Bronze DofE Expedition
This week we took 64 students from the Lower Fifth on their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Expedition. There were a…
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Girls Inter-House Bouldering Competition
On the 5th November the girls Houses took part in the first bouldering comp of the year. Teams of three…
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Gold DofE Expedition to the Lake District
I did check the calendar; it was August; we were in the Northern Hemisphere and it was still supposedly summer.…
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